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tt. t ': r~ Matilahb S'OelEtY OP SCOTL.4XI). Eottuautt'on, JAN. AnniVersiry Oe. 11031 Meeting of this Society was held in their Hall on Tuesday at which. there was a very re , spectable and fill! attendanCe Of the Members, to the number of upwards of one hundred. The .Right lion. Lord Viscount CATIIt;AIUT, Vice-President, in the Chair. About forty new Members were admitted Into the Society, and various noticed were given .respeeting the premiums given for the Improvement of agti;• culture and manufaEtures. Among many other mat ters, the:attention of the Society Was called to the highly meritorious and spirited condu& of two, indi- Ghials, who, among many others of our gallant countrymen, had piirticuldrly distinguished them 'selves at the battle of Vimiera, so as to attra& the • • notice of Major-General FERGUSSON, under Whose command the 71st Highland Regiment, to which litey belonged, had been ' placed. General TER- °PSSON, in his letter, states, that ANGUS MACKAY • (then a Corporal in the 71st regiment, but who had since been very deservedly promoted to a commission) Wa'i the parson who had, on the above occasion, re fused to accept of the Fiend' General -Bitempat's Watch and purse, when tendered to him by that Officer, at the time he was taken prisonti----and that STEWART, the piper of the grenadier company of the same regiment, had, atter being severely and • dangerously wounded, continued to play to animate the men. General FERGUSSON expresses a hope that this-Society would confer some public mark of its approbation upon these men for their Con duet. • - • The Meeting, with much approbation, and agree able to the suggestion of the Direetor4unanimously resolved, that a gold medal, with suitable devices rind inscription, should be presented by the Society to Mr. MAckAY, as a mark of the sense the Society entertains of his meritorious, manly, and disinter ested condu&, as above stated ;• and that a hand . sofpe stand of Hi g hl an d p i pes , whit a proper in •• scription engraved thereon, shall be given to STEWART, the' piper, 'foriohis highly spirited and laudable condua 'at the batttle Of Vimiera. 1 ' • The Transport Board continues to engage all cop '1)1. Vessels competent to the conveyance of troops, that are offered, at the advanced price of 255. per ton, per month. 'The reinforcements for Sir JOHN MoOltE's army from Portugal consist of 7500 English troops, com , minded by General MACKENZIE, and four brigades • of Portuguese' troops. Letters were received yesterday from Tenerifle, which state, that the inhabitants ale vying with those of the Mother Country, in their efforts for the defence. of the Islands, Nu:ebers have enrolled ' .the rnselves in the army ; and a private individual has raised at his own expence 125 men, for iheetquipping of whom lie has sent orders to this. Country. A Military Officer arrived yesterday in Downing Street, with Dispatches. from the West Indies. It Was reported that he brought an account of the cap ture of Martinique. Thai, IrOlietVer, was not the . fait; but, we understand, he has brought an ac count of the arrival of Sir Geotios PRavosT, anti the preparations made by him for an attack upon 1 that and the other French West India Island;. Sir JOUR Moose has sent from the army which lic commands; one officer of very high rank, and two officers or very- aupetior runk, on account of in rapacity, and unfitness to_cominatid, It is.but pro - Per to mention , that want of c o u rage i s not the fault imputed to these Gentlemen; but courage is put one I, quality (though an indispensible. one) in an officer. l' We are informed • that the Dutch Merchants are loud in their complaints of the ernbarrassments of trade, Immense quantities of cheeses are rotting in ... 1 their warehouses, a nd their rich butters are convert ,' .1 ring into soap; yet they indulge a . hope that the in tercessions of Louis will obtain 'for them some re laxation of th e severity of the commer,eiallaws on. 0 , the return of sp r i ng , 4 It warvery currently reported in the City yester day, that Buenos Ayres,-'Monte Video, and, all the 1 Spanish Settlements on theatio Plata, had declared themielves independent of the Mother country, and were proceeding to organize a Government. Yesterday the Prince of WALEs and 'Duke of CLARENCE visited their MAJESTIES and the Palm ! CEssES. . . Yesterday ! the Princesses AUGUsti and SDEHIA 1 4, honoured Lady CHAR L OT T E FI NCH w i t h a v i s i t . ', .16 pursuance of the Resolution of the Rouse of Commons in the last Session, a National Institution, for the purpisse of proingring Vaccination, is esta i, . ' hllshed under the management of a Board, which consists of the following Members :—Sir Luca's' Pepys, Bart. President of the-Royal College of Phy- Aicians ; Dr. Mayo, 'Dr. Heberden, Dr. Satterley, .and Dr, Bancroft, censors of the College ; George Chandler, Esq. Master; and Robert ICeate, E. 1 • and Sir Charles Blicke, Governors of the Royal iCollege of Surgeons. • Tim Board have appointed the following Officeri :,—Direaor,. Dr. Jenner ; "Assistant-Director, James Moore, Eel, ; Register, 4 • Dr. Hervey ; Principal Vaccinator, J. C. Carpue, !--. .' Esq.; Vaccinators at the Stations, Charles Aikin, Esq. Thomas Hale, Esq. Richard Lane, Eq. Ed. Ward Leese,'Esq, S. Sawrey, Esq. and J. P. Vincent, Esq.; Secretary, Charles Murray, Esq. ne - cleCision . of the Court-Martial held at Chat itatu on Lieutenant WM. George Burchall, of 111 e. Marinesil s , t h a t th e c ha rges are a ll p rove d, an d th ey do lenience him to be Caska ier,'. he retelling „Sultan MAIioNIET is the onlyre maining repreientativc of fhe 4ynasty of OTa H 24, ;tilt' will, Of course, be . somewhat respected, even by I those'who are most enraged against the innovations .. introduced under - his reign. The next beirsare the t Glieraii,Turtar Khans, who have been sedulously se. cluded in die'remote provinces of the Turkish Ent .: . Ore and 'the small Islands of the Archipelago, lest . they should be 'taken - up by'any of the leaders, of listie revolutionary contests, of which the fermiof the liurkirth Government was so susceptible. • On the afternoon of. Saturday, last, a chid waj .. :/:, 'fought on the Race Course, about a mile from Lei-' tester, between a Mr. P, and e Mr. L.'both Gentle r - men of considerable los tune and interest in that, . , county. The dispute is said ter have originated dur ing the exercise of their magisterial duty. They .•.; • 'were attended to the ground by a Captain R. ef. duelling notoriety, friend of the former, and a Mr.- K. triend.of the latter Gentleman.. Au exchange • of Shots took, place, WIWI) i the affair was amicably aelested. bbk PO TFIA. Alkfr. ItitA, 'lO6. 13y H. 1. 1"VE; Esq. ra.. ruil.orb'd in equinalial skies, IVhea the pale moon malignant tides, And bids the howling tempest rise, And swells the ocean's briny tides, Dreadful, against the sounding shore, ' The winds and waves tumult eus roar; The torrent-braVing mound, in vain, ' • The stormy inroad would restrains The surges, with resistlets sway, FoOce o'er the labour'd Mole then= way; Scorn every weak - resource of huMan toil; - • 'o'erwhelm the peopl'd town, and waste the cnlttied soil. 'But when ; ' by native fences bared trona billowy rage, the happier land, .Androcky cliffs for ever stand :To the Wide- % 4 ; ater'd coast a guard; • • Such as on Veda's southern.steep Look doWn defiance on the raging deep, • Such as on Dover's breezy down • On Gallia's hostile borders frown, Tho' billows urging billows roar, And icily beat ,a\gainst the shore, 'tlbile fiorn the heights sublime the swain Mocks the vain efforts of the foaming main, Till nature bids the deluged surge subside, Hush'd is the tempest's voice, and rauent rolls the tide. So,'o'er Europa's ravaged plain, We saw the torrent of ry4r, Resistless, spread its iron reign,' And scatter ruin wide and far; The embattl'd wall—the wariike band: — Vainly the Tyrant's course withstand ; • Before the impious Sons of Gaul The legions fly, the bularks fall ; Yet Britain's floating bastles sweep • Invasion from lwrsubjed deep ; - Yet, by her rocks secure from harm Securer by her patriot arm Iberia turns the battle's tide ; Resists the injurious Tyrant's pride ; 11sile, freely floating its the ambient sky, Sieredto ,lireetkim's cause, their mingled cosigns ily. , We have the authority of an Officer on board his Majesty's Ship Sto.m&rd, at Chatham, for saying, that the manner in .which . the conduct of the crew of that ship has been mentioned in the 'Morning Papers, (from which we copied the article), was a gross falsehood, and that previous td, their going on , leave ',they behaved with all due obedience ausl &OA.' The same Gentleman assures ui, that the Officers ofihat ship were astonished and concerned at such an . untounded misrepresentation, as the con duet of the men was totally the reverse.—We are happy in availing ottrselves of any opportunity of doing justice to the .Charaeler of our gallant Tar 9, and while we sincerely thank our correspondent fur e na bling us, to corred this gross mis•statement, we trust the Public Prints will iii future be more cau, tious in admitting. articlt!ts 'which. may tend to lead our 'brave Naval Defenders into error, and which indeed might produce incalculable mischief. • Tans THEATR ir..—The admirable Comedy of The Provoked Husband, was represented List night at the Haymarket Theatre, but not before so numerous an audience as, from the intrinsic merit of the piece, and the general ability of the pea formers, might be • expeetect. Mr. YOUNG pourtrayed the connubial. disappointinents of Lord Torun/y, with.great feel ing, and expressed his determined resentment with proper. dignity. - His perfortmnce, on the whole, ‘eas• highly respobable. We are sorry 'to say, that Mrs.' H. JOHNSTON E'S ,the worst. repre-• ,sentation of Lady • Townly .:we ever , saw, and Wholly unworthy of the, London boards. H'er ac tion was uncultivated, her manners unpolished, and lier whole conception of the chant - 61er, except in the sinks -inslince where she recovers the money from the Steward, grossly erroneous. Miss BOLTUN NUS.. tained the charailer pf Lady Grace with great judg- ment and propriety, and the same may be said of • MURRAY in the part of Manly, though be certainly appeared rather too far " declined into the vale of years" for a lover.—Mrs, GIBBS and SimmoNs sup- • ported the chara6ters of Miss Jenny and Squire Dick w itly great spirit, but were a little too frisky, whilb . 'the dialogue was going forward, in the front of the Stage. M u MIN and EIiERY 'were excellent in Sir Francis sad John Moody. We are glad to find Oat one of the regulations which is to takeplacein'the new. theatre at Covent Gardeti, is to prevent tlw,women of the town from mixing promiscuously with the audience in general. An arrangeMent cif this kind prevails in the DUbrin and Edinburgh theatres, -and there can be nodifil culty, we should Conceive,• in 'extending it to the •Londonstages. At present it must be painful and disgnstful to a husband and a father, to !wive the de-; licaey of the females under their proteclion exposed to thegross language, and shameless deportment of the numerous 'troops of unfortunate women, whom the theatres are nightly haunted, and who • seem often to take a pride in putting modesty to the • Wadi, to say nothing of the impudent and drunken blockheads who ' encourage and assist them in the violation of 1;604 manners and common decency. . The Marquis of STAFFORI) has just coMplet' ed a Cemetery near. to his seat of Trentham „Hall, in . Staffordshire. This bpdtling is:after the manner of. the Roman Tombs, and consequently situate on t • he road Side—The Ancients usually bll4l their 'rumba near the highways, which 'reminded them of their ancestors,, and was, at the same 'time ' a useful me numto!pfonortality to the traveller. The Cemetry is.of7,,stone,.a square of 40 feet an the base,.and rises pyramidically 40 feet high. The inside contains 40 Catacombs under one grained arch of stone, and the whole is lined with a beautitnlly dark, and highly polished marble. Over the door, on the inside, is this inscription : • • • Extruzit G. G--Mar. ii. Stafford--t 3 8." Petitions have 'been .sent' from the debtors, con- . fined in the King's Bench Prison, to be presented to &wh i t:louses of Parliament in the next Session, sign fod by:34 persons, having 278 'wives andl)ot cull dren dei‘endent on them for support. We onder.; ,ilerstand all these are Within the walls, which adde4 to . those in the liole4, will composean . ag‘ireate of v1,0404(4760 prisoners, at this time, conned for debt in that prition only. tt,'L THE PRENCti (1 1 11014 t THE CENTINELA ,PRANCESt3,I • " The experienal,of all ages does not permit us to believe that the French wig be weary of the fa lives and dangers of the field. Tkike a Fretichtrian , Weeping front his father's cottage, he will return to it singing and Vattlfting. Tittle is no hope that the justice of our cause will nuke hint relax. War ap pears to be his element, and there needs ho object to fight.tor. At one time he yields his life to crown Kingg ii . at anoth e r to dethr o ne them ; .t o d a y for li berty, for despotism. He goes into the field like the war-horse, Aum the trumpet rouses; the Christian Knight bestrides him, and he rushes furiotisly upon the Moor. His master is pierced .by. a spear, the Moor mounts upon his back, and he willifigly obeys the rein of the Mahometan. is not thus exactly with the leaders. To-day they eat on wooden trenchers, and to-morrow dis 7. &tin the silver service with .which they are hum,bly attended ; yesterday they were lost amid the base crowd, tO-day' they are raised to the , summit of glory,*and riot in the luxury and wealth which their apine haw colleaed. If you ask the French. why they submit to the depotisni of Bnonaparte, they will tell you, to avoid the' horiors of another revolution. 1 hey are tired, they say, of shedding the blood of their sons, brpthers, and parents; and, at the same time, with 'a characteristic inconsistency, they d...liver'up these sante sons, brothers,.and parents,' that a million of youths may tie slaughtered afar froM their country, not for the glory or defence of the nation, for no one attacks it, hut to satiate. the greedy ambition of a fortnnat?, adventurer, win) first brought France under his yoke to be the instrument of subjugating other nations." -" Let us never, my countrymen, forget that a Frenchman is an unde finable animal ; he preaches virtue, and does not praaise it--humanity, and he does not know ik—be wishes for peace, and seeks after war—and pulls down with one . hand what the other had raised. — Frenchmen were the leaders and preachers of the crusades to the Holy Land, .and they were the first to render these expeditions ridiculous in their writ- ings. They were the founders of the Qrder of Knights Templars, and they abolished she -Order' with inhuman cruelty. They established also the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and during, their revolution persecuted it, till Buonaparte wrested Malta from the Knights, that it might fall into the hands of the English. Among. them, the Order of the Catthusians, arose, in the chastisement. of their idle talk and clamour; and, as• they are ever on extremes, they produced the Order. of La Trippe, to coma their gluttony. In a Council at. Clertuoi.t was instituted the commemoration of the.deeeased, and now they pray as little for the dead asAlt2 1:66, bled the Pontifical Chair ire gome, and de tended the patrimony of St. Peter; and now.. they laugh alike at St. Peter and the Pope, and strip liim of his possessions, the inaefitance of ten c..aturies. A Freuelanim has the spirit a d the docility of the horse, which, with the same patience and content ment, anew); himself to lie mounted by Trajan and Napoleten." Last week a tneeting of persons interested in the establiShmeut of . a rail-mad through the forest of Dean. from Lidney to Lidbrook„ was held in Here. ford, when it appeared that the proposed line would open a direa communication between Lidney .and Lidbrook,through a large portion of forest aboUnd ing-with coal, and hitherto very little explored. The consent of the Crown to the proposed rneast.re warp signified in letter from Lord GLtNnERVZe, as Sur veyor-Generalof the Woods and Forests, and the necessary steps will be taken immediately for obtain ; Mg au Aa of Parliament. Another grand pigeon-match between the two disputants, Messrs. King, the Keeper, ttnd Street, took. pine yesterday, •in the neighboMhood •of of •twenty-one birds, nineteen of which Mr. Street killed, and' bet his antagonist by one. This matob was for fifty :,iiineas a Side—King bai, ing beat his aditersary for a similar sum last week. A hard pitched battlt was fought on .Monday at Hensley Common, near Shaftesbu r y, f or a subscrip tion purse of 50 guincaq, between Wood, Captain Haidy'S coachman, who kit a-great provincial battle a month Since, and James Ellis, from Kingsland, which place has produced Crib, and other boxers, the combatants contended for the purse 4) minuteq, when Wood was declared the vi&tor. He was the favourite throughout, hut' the -fight was obstinately maintained to the last. Mother elopethent took place from the neigh bourhood ofj(ingston, on the same evening that the Dragoon Captain ran,'aWay with the Minor. Au Officer I,itts also the gallant iu the second'airair, be wa an Officer of the Customs. His prize %us not equal to that of his brother Officer, his charmer being the wife of a dealer in grocery and hardware, 40. years of age,: whom the husband wets fortunate enough to find yesterday in Duke-street, Manche's ter-square. The Lady was so eculiarly attached to her, paramour, that h e r e n rage d husband gut.posties siou of her'.again by force, aided by the interfe rence of the polii:e ; and 701.. the wife had furnished herself': with were returned to her husband, CUM CON, IN. SCOTLAND.—The inhabitants, of the Northern part of the island are zealously imitating the more refined and fashionable Manners of Lon don. A few weeks ago, a shopkeeper: in Edinburgh having,accidentally stepped into his wife's dressing closet,. found daux from a Mr. 11—, a youthl\il barrister, fixing a place of mooing with lite Lady. Proper measures _were instantly taken by the husband for the detrains) of the enamoured pair, who were caught in a very critical situatirin.— An maims of divorce is about to commence, and the frail lair one means to recinninate, as she says her floix puts wits only a just retaliation,--• The law of Scotland admits total divorces for Mill tery, the shopkeeper, therefore, will get quit Of his 'faithless rib at comvaratively small etspence; Sir W. W: WykrrF., Bart. has publicly announced the-prizes he intends giving for time encouragement of agriculture in North Wales, &c. ;at the annual shew 01' cattle and sheep, at Wyonstay, in Septem ber next ; they consist of silver cups for iha best P shep, cattle, and pigs, with rewards to the l°lbest' i4'2 pl l oughtneit. Tito Loan MAYOTi - 8 late dinner, ball, and suppe., formed the most spendid civic gala that the 111. to sion-licuse WS _known for many years.- His 4 , uraship liberally rletoted f2OOOl. tor this festive eimertainment of the, City nt Lnntinn_ 'LA REPORT. COURT CIIANCERV; (AN,. [5, HEIRS OF DABBER' DIZO.ASE.3. A sadltr in London; of the name of Barber ; liAd an only son, vliw went out -to the East4ndies, where lie resided A long .time, and having accumulated A' srery lato fortune, returned to this country, in A bad state of health, and dkd at a hotel in the Adelphi; about a w eek atler his arrival. He had no corre spondence with his reiAtions'in this Country, and it was totally unknown who were his heirs, alter advertisements in the Gazette, certain persons ap peared, claiming, to be his' heirs both by the father's and Mother's side: The LORD. CHANCELLOR direeted three severarts;. - sues to be tried at the last Worcester AssiteS, l to dc= termlpe whp were the right heirs ; and at that time a short account of the circumstances of the case.ap peared in most'of the "Newspapers.. The Jury then decided in favoUr of ceriain persons of ttie name of . Lin wiche,. resi'dint in Shropshire.; but, on the part of severni other :persons who were thus' excluded from the succession, a Petition was presented, pray ing that his Lordship would be pleased to order a new The . prayer of the Petition VVIls supported at great length by Sir S. Hamill) , acrd by Mr. Daunce, Mr. Serjeant Manley, and Mr. Abbot, who, at the trial at Worcester, had been Counsel for the present Pe titioners. Mr. Alexander and Mr.' Jarvis were heard on the other side, when the Lord' Chancell..r delayed farther proceedings in the cause till Pri.;ny test. • POLICE. Gumpulat...-..--Yesterday a soldier of the bathe of' Fisher, Was committed for trial, for stealing a square pig of copper,. from Messrs. Pidgeon and Co.'s wharf, known by the name of Harnborough Aim Shorter, a well-dressed female, Was . charged by Mr. Swinder, hardware-man;. No. 4, Skinner. slreet, with stealing a piece of woollen cloth, and a piece of ;linen,' his property.' He stated, that the Pri4oorr. bad .lived with him rs a house-keeper ; •is. misged . the articles out of his - tooth that morning, and she deuivd having any knowledge of thelh,:-btit Since she had been ht the Compter, she ael.now ledged ,that she put them into her box, •out of thee duSt, and had given hith the key, and as he had re covered the goods,* he was perfealy satisfied, .1A did not wish to prosecute her, The *Prisoner, in her defence, said, • she and the Prosecutor had 'lived together, for nine m o nths, a 4 Moo and wife; but' they were not I,4gally ; ;d1 whirl) time . shelind never &fronded him of a stil ling, but .he brought • this dcd-,iation" against her Out of a tit of jealousy. Tice Sitting Magistrate ordered her to. be charged. No intelligence having been received of tho Ce . y. lon homeward-bound Ebst Indianian, which p.nt,:d Company with the'Fleet recently arrked, iu the Day of Bengal, shortly after leaving the Ganges ; it i; supposed that Ship has either put b;lck. in cons. cluence of some accident, or has been captured by some of the enemy's cruizers in the Indian seas. A tradesman from London, -.whose shop, was broken into November,last, and -gold% seals and' jewellery stolen out to the atm:nit• of nearly .4001; went run Monday, in the course of laisinesi, into the shop of a Jew in the High-street, Portimouthi when a custamer happened to cute in and asked for a seal. A drawer, was accordingly taken ant for him to make choice of one, among which the trades, man recognised several which had been stolen from him. He ,immediately left the sj.'cp, and laid„nit„ information against the Jew, whoge house a n d s h o p, were afterwards examined, and a very considelable; number of the articles which were stolen out of shop were found, The Jew, who Nitai .taken into custody, says he,bought them in London: A mote affetiling. and melanchcly opeNcle was scarcely ever witnessed, i thati was presented on. Stlll-: day evening at Derby. A poor widow of the narpe, of Fenn, followed her deceased husband .to the grave; :attendod by eleven helplcss orphan ; and what rendered this awi'id solamaitir still mire al feaing, before , thd remains of the departed father were committed to the earth, the.disconsolate nia ther (who had ,not been brought to bed gnite three weeks) returned thanks for her safe deliverance from the dangers of child-birth, and ten of ,'her un- ' fortunate children were christened. Last, Friday as John White, a hawker of fish, was going along Mutton-hill, Hattoit-garden, a large dog fiercely attacked him, and tore one of hiik hands in a shocking-manner ; fearing that he as 'mad, caustic, was applied to the lacerated part, after which he went to Gravesend for immersion in the salt water. The dog escaped frsim being killed. (in Wednesday forenoon considerable alarm was excited by, the appearance of a doe,: outrageously mad, in lil6 streets of Carlisle. _Two ebildren, we are sorry to say, besides several animals, ‘i'ere bitten by it, before it was destroyed at Newtown. , The following extraordinary circumstance oak red during the late snow, in the garden of. Mr. Als, of Glynde-bourne; Sussex, who saving furfnd that groat depredations .had been committed by rabbits, on his cabbages and other vegetables, brie evening set up a wire snare in the track by which he thought the little nightly robbep entered his premises, and ott the' morning tellowin4, to his great surprise, round he had caught a couple, a buck and a doe, in the same noose. The female, it appeared on eitamination, had been caught in t he usual manner, by the'neck, and the male, by baying the wire twiited round his body, probably in Ins endeavour to extricate the doe. ConN-ExcuAxez, supplici of 'Wheat on hand t&day, are rather large, but in con. svquehce or the ThattleS ,tlfiVigatioti be' %nett:7ly Stopped, scarce may sales thereof ar ; Batley i n :l arge s upply . ; Beans of each Kind in plenty, there are considerable supplies of Oats, but in this tracl4, as well as otheri, owing to the' few sates elreded, the prices are alreost considered nominal; Flour plena= tul at last prices, Wheat 654 a Szs a tpi od Tick Beans . 645 - 3 7os od Fine ditto . 941a97,7 Out , ( ? 4,16 - .3Ss a 3" 4 4 1 a e.l it . e '. . i l 4.s a 03 , 3l Patartd (nth, 44 4 a4is od Di tr icy • . 4 a scli ad 1 Potarce . . --s a .46s , d 11 , 131 t, • , .... 73i a 14.31 4.4 I Kap» Seed . col A 541 -- 1 W itite Pease 144, 3 154 S od I file `t -8.,:, ;,. Lit od I Grey t titto . 54s a sys bd -Sr,tit) s • . yis a 1.1 . 4 i crd